<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340374" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How We Heard The Name</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The river brought down <br>dead horses, dead men <br>and military debris, <br>indicative of war <br>or official acts upstream, <br>but it went by, it all <br>goes by, that is the thing <br>about the river. Then <br>a soldier on a log <br>went by. He seemed drunk <br>and we asked him Why <br>had he and this junk <br>come down to us so <br>from the past upstream. <br>“Friends,” he said, “the great <br>Battle of Granicus <br>has just been won <br>by all of the Greeks except <br>the Lacedaemonians and <br>myself: this is a joke <br>between me and a man <br>named Alexander, whom <br>all of you ba-bas <br>will hear of as a god.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alan+Dugan">Alan Dugan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340374" data-title="How We Heard The Name de Alan Dugan" data-description="The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream, but it went by, it all goes by, that is the thing about the river. Then a soldier on a log went by. He seemed drunk and we ask..."></div> </div> </div>

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